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单词 bastinading
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bastinadingn.

Brit. /ˌbastᵻˈneɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌbæstəˈneɪdɪŋ/
Forms: 1500s–1800s bastonading, 1700s– bastinading.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bastinade n., bastinade v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Partly < bastinade n. + -ing suffix1, and partly (in later use) < bastinade v. + -ing suffix1. Compare slightly earlier bastinade n., bastinado n.
Now rare.
The action or an act of beating or thrashing a person with a stick, cane, or similar weapon, esp. on the soles of the feet; beating of this sort used as a form of corporal punishment or torture. Cf. bastinade n., bastinade v.
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1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas Spanish Colonie sig. B3 Whippings, bastonading, buffeting, blowes with the fist.
1604 M. Sutcliffe Full Answer to N. D. 307 It is not halfe a loade of wood that will serue for the bastonading of this brutish and senselesse beast.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ix. 388 Such a sum of money, would..have enticed a Chinese to have undergone a dozen bastinadings.
1802 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 24 Apr. 464 Never were heads cut off with more facility at Constantinople, or bastonadings bestowed with more generosity than at St. Domingo under the government of Toussaint and his adherents.
1901 Sacred Heart (Boston) Rev. 10 Aug. 87/3 This child, eleven years old, was condemned to the torture of bastinading.
2004 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 13 June 15 For months he endured beatings and bastinadings—in which a captive was suspended upside down with bound ankles to have the soles of his feet thrashed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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